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Saturday, 17 June 2017

Good morning and welcome, I hope you all had a fantastic crafty fortnight. Thank you so much for your gorgeous entries for last times challenge. It was lovely to see your wonderful creations.

Please scroll further down this post

to see if you were one of the lucky winners of last times challenge.

Before I mention our new challenge, I would like to say 'Thanks and Goodbye' to one of our wonderful DT Ladies.... Tammy, who has been with us for nearly 2 years and unfortunatley is having to step down... we wish you all the best Tammy and we are going to miss you.

We are looking to increase our design team, if you would like to join our friendly team, please see further details in the tab at the top of the page called 'DT Call Information'.

Now onto our new challenge for this fortnight at Crafty Friends...The theme of this challenge is

FRIENDSHIP

You can make anything you like, maybe a card, a scrapbook layout of even home decor. You can use any products you like to enter as long as it follows the theme for this fortnight.

Andrea Norris, unknown artist - Living in Leeds, Yorkshire
in the UK, working full time as a Management Accountant and currently working
on 4 design teams. I'm a dancer (Argentine Tango and Ceroc) and a
competitive badminton player. It's amazing that I've managed to squeeze
drawing into my schedule as well as being an obsessive crafter and creator of
cards. I have no actual style as yet but do love the unusual and quirky.
I may be known for producing cards in soft pastel colours. I love anything arty. I've always drawn stuff, for
as long as I can remember. In my younger days I sold a few watercolour
paintings. I recently found mixed media which is a joy and love creating
canvases with flowers. I've had a battle with digital drawing for about a year
and finally found some software I can gel with in January 2016. Recently
one of the challenge teams I worked on was short of a designer's images to
create with so I drew some. Then people kept asking me for my drawings.
So I thought what the heck let's open a shop and give something back to
the crafting world, to the lovely ladies who have supported me on my journey. Welcome to my world, we're only at the beginning and I
have so much more to offer. Andrea x

...and here is inspiration from Team 2... If you want to take a closer look at the DT's beautiful cards or leave them a comment, just click on the name above their card and it will take you straight to their own personal blogs.

Here are the lucky winners from last times challenge....Our randomly picked winner who will receive a prize from The East Wind is Number 41 Paper Whims**CLAIMED**

Congratulations Wendy, please contact Diane Louise atcraftyfriendschallengeblog8@gmail.com to claim your prizeand receive your winners badge.On your email, in the subject line, can you put the words'Winner of Challenge 59, The East Wind'(Don't forget, you have 14 days to claim)

and now for the Top 3 favourites, as chosen by Wendy. Congratulations and please collect your Top 3 Winners badge from the tab at the top of the page.

Saturday, 3 June 2017

Before I give you details of this challenge, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered our last challenge, all the entries were fab, we loved looking at them all :)Please scroll further down this post for the winners of last times challenge.

The theme of this fortnights challenge is

MAKE IT PINKWe would like to see MORE PINK on your creation than any other colour (apart from the white and neutrals)

Here are details of this challenge's wonderful sponsor...

The East Wind

The artist behind The East Wind digital images is known as Unky LaStrange. Unky makes her home in British Columbia, Canada with her wonderful daughter, Aurora, the love of her life and source of much inspiration. She has been creating art since she was a child always allowing it to reflect her interests, humour, and love of all that is quirky. Her unique images run the gamut from the darkly humourous and sometimes creepy through the world of fashion-forward Lucy Loo to the sweet Aurora and Baby Aurora where life and people are good and beautiful. There are images to suit every taste, occasion, or whim at The East Wind (https://www.etsy.com/shop/theeastwind/)

If you are our lucky winner of this challenge, you will receive the following fabulous prize...